Death doesn't make life pointless, but rather purposeful.

WE Gather Strength strength as we go}.

Does what happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness?

You will come across obstacles in life-fair and unfair. And you will discover, time and time again, that what matters most is not what these obstacles are but how we see them, how we react to them,...

People turn shit into sugar all the time-shit that's a lot worse than whatever we're dealing with. I'm talking physical disabilities, racial discrimination, battles against overwhelmingly superior...

Our perceptions determine, to an incredibly large degree, what we are and are not capable of. In many ways, they determine reality itself. When we believe in the obstacle more than in the goal, which...

Where one person sees a crisis, another can see opportunity. Where one is blinded by success, another sees reality with ruthless objectivity. Where one loses control of emotions, another can remain...

An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before. To them, the idea that no one has ever done this or that is a good thing.

Certain things in life will cut you open like a knife. When that happens-at that exposing moment-the world gets a glimpse of what's truly inside you. So what will be revealed when you're sliced open...

Seize this moment to deploy the plan that has long sat dormant in your head.

See things for what they are. Do what we can. Endure and bear what we must. What blocked the path now is a path. What once impeded action advances action. The Obstacle is the Way.

In life, it doesn't matter what happens to you or where you came from. It matters what you do with what happens and what you've been given. And the only way you'll do something spectacular is by using...

We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out. -THEODORE ROOSEVELT

The struggle against an obstacle inevitably propels the fighter to a new level of functioning. The extent of the struggle determines the extent of the growth. The obstacle is an advantage, not...

Our perceptions are the thing that we're in complete control of.

But thinking about and being aware of our mortality creates real perspective and urgency. It doesn't need to be depressing. Because it's invigorating.

Perspective has two definitions. Context: a sense of the larger picture of the world, not just what is immediately in front of us Framing: an individual's unique way of looking at the world, a way...

On the path to successful action, we will fail-possibly many times. And that's okay. It can be a good thing, even. Action and failure are two sides of the same coin. One doesn't come without the...

You'll have far better luck toughening yourself up than you ever will trying to take the teeth out of a world that is-at best-indifferent to your existence.

How we interpret the events in our lives, our perspective, is the framework for our forthcoming response-whether there will even be one or whether we'll just lie there and take it. Where the head...

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better. -WENDELL PHILLIPS

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself. -PUBLIUS SYRUS

When people ask where we are, what we're doing, how that "situation" is coming along, the answer should be clear: We're working on it. We're getting closer. When setbacks come, we respond by working...

In its own way, the most harmful dragon we chase is the one that makes us think we can change things that are simply not ours to change. That someone decided not to fund your company, this isn't up to...

Failure really can be an asset if what you're trying to do is improve, learn, or do something new.

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant. -VIKTOR...